Word: milwaukeee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Financial motives are behind a similar case at the Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls Inc. Female factory workers in 14 plants across the country have been forced to choose between sterilization operations and demotion. The company's "Fetal Protection Policy," in effect since 1982, bars fertile women from hazardous and high...
Controlled choice plans are already being implemented in several Massachusetts cities, including Lowell, Fall River and Cambridge. Boston is in its first year of a controlled choice system, and Milwaukee is considering adopting a similar plan.
In 1982 Johnson Controls of Milwaukee instituted a strict employment policy for women working in its battery-manufacturing division. It excluded women capable of bearing children from jobs that expose workers to certain levels of lead. The reason, said the company, was medical: scientific evidence indicates that exposing a mother...
For Stroh and Coors, the third and fourth largest U.S. brewers, the combination is a matter of necessity. Neither has the financial clout or national brands needed to compete against behemoths Anheuser-Busch (market share: 42%) and Miller (21%). By acquiring the Detroit brewer, Coors will have a 19% share...
COLONIAL ATTITUDES. When Britain's Blue Arrow employment firm took over the much larger Milwaukee-based Manpower in 1987, the new owners made little effort to understand the market they were entering, according to Manpower chairman Mitchell Fromstein. He even took offense at the Blue Arrow company newsletter, which he...